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With a dash of nostalgia, a pinch of evolution and a huge chunk of new content Korg works its magic on the Wavestation to give us Wavestate; a fabulously dynamic digital synth that never sits still.
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If the sequencer in your DAW is feeling a little stale try Riffer - the randomising, scaling, motion moving, pattern and beat generating MIDI sequencer that runs as a plug-in.
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With the OP-Z they plan to push more boundaries, annoy more people and reach new levels of hipster smugness. 16 tracks of sequencing covering drums, synths, sampling, MIDI, CV, lights and video - and it's tiny.
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DU-INO is a hackable Eurorack Arduino shield that can be anything you want it to be. Download programs or write your own it's fully open source and fully programmable. On Kickstarter from Detroit Underground.
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Tracktion Corporation has announced that Tracktion 7 is now completely free. Unlimited tracks, VST support, vocal comping and step sequencing it has everything you need to produce music on MacOS, Windows or ...
There's lots to ALK2 and it's certainly a viable alternative to Ableton Live for performances, although you will have to endure a learning curve and switch up your workflow a fair bit.
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Alarmingly shaped and worryingly named Oi, Kant! is an angry, mean and bonkers drum-ish machine -whose esthetics presumably arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment.
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Developed by Sensomusic and La Muse En Circuit, MusineKit 2 brings a playful and creative musical box of modules to touch, control, manipulate and mess about with on Windows or MacOS. Pure joyfulness.
Isotonik Studios designed a set of four generative sequencers for Ableton Live, styled after arcade game classics. They support most Ableton controllers, so playing them using pads and switches can feel like ...
Amalgame features 23 effects that can be hooked up in various ways and modulated by 6 XY pads - this promises to be a lot of fun if you want to artistically mess up your audio!
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Musicon is an awesome hardware polyphonic barrel sequencer for kids of all ages and it's looking for funding on Kickstarter
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Bitwig Studio 2 focuses on modulation, device manipulation and CV/Gate integration as well as fixing most of the stuff that's been lacking.
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The Oak dock uses your iPhone camera and a laser to map objects and your interaction with them to create an instant modular music making augmented reality, or something.
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Take control over your entire Eurorack modular system with 8 channels of 16 step sequencing in the Varigate 8+ from Malekko.
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FL Studio Mobile 3 is released on Android. The iOS, Windows App, Windows Phone and desktop plug-in version will be along shortly. That's mobile music making on pretty much everything.
A Level 1 qualification in MPC beat making? Now there's something to put on your CV.
